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Rotterdam weather

South Holland · 868,135 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:48

Air: Fair

10°

Mainly clear

Feels like 10°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

8 km/h

Humidity

96 %

Pressure

1031 hPa

Clouds

43 %

Storm

Rise 07:31 Set 17:20 Day 9 h 48 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Partly cloudy

13°10°

Feels like 13°

Wind ↑ E 4 km/h

Humidity 89 %

22:00

10°

E 4

Rotterdam forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Rotterdam climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 43 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 45 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 54 mm and 86 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 22 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 1 °C.

Even the coldest month, January, keeps nights above freezing on average (1 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	6 °C	1 °C	68 mm
Feb	7 °C	2 °C	59 mm
Mar	10 °C	4 °C	59 mm
Apr	14 °C	6 °C	54 mm
May	17 °C	9 °C	67 mm
Jun	19 °C	12 °C	71 mm
Jul	22 °C	15 °C	86 mm
Aug	22 °C	15 °C	85 mm
Sep	19 °C	12 °C	74 mm
Oct	14 °C	9 °C	74 mm
Nov	10 °C	5 °C	71 mm
Dec	7 °C	3 °C	78 mm
Whole year	14 °C	8 °C	840 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.92° N, 4.50° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Rotterdam: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1019µg/m³

O₃25µg/m³

NO₂34µg/m³

SO₂7µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone

BirchNone

GrassNone

MugwortNone

OliveNone

RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Rotterdam

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Rotterdam, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Rotterdam

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 04:37 Set 23:20

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Amsterdam); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Rotterdam

Curious about the weather in Rotterdam on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Rotterdam weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Rotterdam, South Holland: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 10 °C (feels like 10 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 10 °C to 16 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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